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Hurricane Irma - rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:31 pm
by Matt Flynn
25% of Florida Keys houses gone and 65% damaged by Hurricane Irma, will they rebuild given that big hurricanes will become more common and the sea level is rising? ... http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/12/us/fl ... index.html

I guess they will rebuild until the insurance companies refuse to insure, or premiums get too high.

From 2015 ... http://www.flkeysnews.com/news/article79621892.html

Florida Keys problems is that it is very flat, and much of Florida is reclaimed wetland.

Re: Rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:24 pm
by dannett
Matt Flynn wrote:Florida Keys problems is that it is very flat, and much of Florida is reclaimed wetland.
Most of the America mainland side of the Gulf is made up of deltas, lagoons, bayous and wetlands. For the size of the population it's quite amazing really.

Re: Rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:07 pm
by nomad
yep - if you fkuc with nature it will eventually bite you

Re: Hurricane Irma - Rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:09 pm
by Matt Flynn
Two more hurricanes roughly following Irma's path, and Jose moving north ... http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/17/ameri ... index.html

Re: Hurricane Irma - rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:07 pm
by dannett
Wonder how this compares with a normal year in the gulf?

Re: Hurricane Irma - rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:22 am
by Matt Flynn
Puerto Rico, already in deep economic sh.t after defaulting on its debt in 2015, smashed by Hurricane Maria ... http://www.news.com.au/technology/envir ... 337e6b5a0e

Re: Hurricane Irma - rebuilding a house of cards

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:10 am
by Matt Flynn